impregnable

/[ĩmpɾeɣ̞ˈnaβ̞le]/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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impregnable is anSpanishadj. It means: Con la capacidad o potencial de ser impregnado (capaz de recibir o absorber). Pronounced [ĩmpɾeɣ̞ˈnaβ̞le].

Key facts for impregnable
PropertyValue
Headwordimpregnable
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ĩmpɾeɣ̞ˈnaβ̞le]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

impregnable is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for impregnable is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmpɾeɣ̞ˈnaβ̞le]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Con la capacidad o potencial de ser impregnado (capaz de recibir o absorber).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for impregnable in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is impregnable, spelled I-M-P-R-E-G-N-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Con la capacidad o potencial de ser impregnado (capaz de recibir o absorber).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "impregnable"?
"impregnable" is spelled I-M-P-R-E-G-N-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩmpɾeɣ̞ˈnaβ̞le].
What does "impregnable" mean?
As an adj, "impregnable" means: Con la capacidad o potencial de ser impregnado (capaz de recibir o absorber).
How do you pronounce "impregnable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "impregnable" is [ĩmpɾeɣ̞ˈnaβ̞le]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "impregnable" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.